Survey - Kodachrome Revival Price Point?

[Sirius Glass]

If Kodachrome were to be reintroduced then Kodak should pay me to be tolerant of the film and its users.

 

[faberryman]

What prompted renewal of this zombie thread? A lot of people would buy one roll of Kodachrome for old times sake, end up $30 out of pocket after processing, and then go back to shooting digital, which is probably what is going to happen with Ektachrome, if Kodak ever gets around to releasing it.

 

[eddie]

A lot of people would buy one roll of Kodachrome for old times sake, end up $30 out of pocket after processing, and then go back to shooting digital, which is probably what is going to happen with Ektachrome, if Kodak ever gets around to releasing it.

I have no interest in resurrecting Kodachrome. But, large format E-6, on a light table is a far more attractive prospect than digital.

 

[Wayne]

Thanks for reviving this 5 year old thread on a dead product that isnt coming back at any price.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Nothing like flogging a dead horse.

 

[MattKing]

What prompted renewal of this zombie thread?

Most likely the "Similar Threads" list that is now always at the bottom of the page.

 

[Photo Engineer]

As I said before.... At a price, I will send an autographed copy of the K14 patent to anyone. This patent is an original given by the patent office to the inventor(s). Quite a deal.

PE

 

[Wayne]

Most likely the "Similar Threads" list that is now always at the bottom of the page.

And the fact the other Kodachrome thread was closed specifically because of Trendland, who revived this one.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Wasn't there going to be a "Kodachrome III" (for lack of a better term) that had the look of Kodachrome, but used a much simpler process than K-14?

Or maybe that was an April 1 posting.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Well, the survey that started this thread says it all - if 57% of APUG/Photrio users (the most target-rich environment for Kodachrome customers if there ever was one) say they're not interested at ANY price, then it is truly dead, dead, dead. It was financially viable in the 1980s when Kodak could make it and process it in the volumes they had in the 1980s. By 2000, they were making the minimum quantity required to meet QC standards and throwing away unsold product every year, like with Kodak HIE (a product I'd much rather see come back than Kodachrome because it was a truly unique product with no equivalent, but we know that isn't going to happen either...). Think about the price of the final batch of Kodak HIE - it was something like $20/roll, not including processing. Kodachrome would be more expensive than that.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Well, the survey that started this thread says it all - if 57% of APUG/Photrio users (the most target-rich environment for Kodachrome customers if there ever was one) say they're not interested at ANY price, then it is truly dead, dead, dead. It was financially viable in the 1980s when Kodak could make it and process it in the volumes they had in the 1980s. By 2000, they were making the minimum quantity required to meet QC standards and throwing away unsold product every year, like with Kodak HIE (a product I'd much rather see come back than Kodachrome because it was a truly unique product with no equivalent, but we know that isn't going to happen either...). Think about the price of the final batch of Kodak HIE - it was something like $20/roll, not including processing. Kodachrome would be more expensive than that.

The US Defense paid Kodak to continue to make HIE for decades after the department ceased using it so that the country would not lose the HIE and IR Ektachrome manufacturing capability. When the Defense had to cut back tightly on its spending, it stopped paying Kodak and then Kodak stopped making HIE and IR Ektachrome.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

... if 57% of APUG/Photrio users (the most target-rich environment for Kodachrome customers if there ever was one) say they're not interested at ANY price, then it is truly dead, dead, dead. ...

The silent Fuji operatives who lurk on this site skewed the results by voting against Kodachrome.

Demand for Kodachrome today is at a peak!!!

 

[Sirius Glass]

-0i [Negative imaginary zero]?

 

[Photo Engineer]

The silent Fuji operatives who lurk on this site skewed the results by voting against Kodachrome.

Demand for Kodachrome today is at a peak!!!

Oi vey.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I dread the reemergence of the "magenta is not a color" posts.

 

[hoffy]

 

[Sirius Glass]

 

[Wayne]

Whats the best stop bath for Kodachrome threads?

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I dread the reemergence of the "magenta is not a color" posts.

I'm aware of the "controversy" arising from magenta being an "extra-spectral" color consisting of violet and red. Yet, in the words of the ancient and celebrated Roman photographer Ancellus Aedemsis:

"video, ergo est" -- roughly, "I see it, therefore it exists"

Apparently there are ancient and mystical APUG threads, like "magenta" and "deleted" which are now lost to history, leaving relative newcomers like myself scratching our heads in wonder of what they were.

By the way, you do realize, don't you, that by mentioning the magenta-thing you risk conjuring it up: by saying nothing, it's not likely to appear. I suggest heeding a saying we have in my country:

Ne fesd az ördögöt a falra, mert megjelenik.

(don't paint the devil on the wall, or it will appear)

As for Kodachrome at its peak today, it's true: every day will have its peak demand, that demand sadly dwindling each day as the peaks become progressively lower. <sad>

 

[trendland]

......to a "zombie thread - returned from the graves" the response of you isn't that small. ...

Seriously - the issue from pricing of revival Kodakchrome is quite interisting in concern of what is happen these days.
And I mean exact these days...today,last week, this week, tomorrow - who may determine this exactly ? : The pricing of
New Ektachrome !
So we may ask : " Kodak Ektachrome Revival Price Point?"
And if you now have a short look back to speculations about possible pricing of good old Kodachrome - one can't make it
more clear - there should be no chance
to Kodak of being successfull with Ektachrome revival if they don't find a way to make Ektachrome with realistic pricing.
What should that mean? Yeah - that's indeed the question - but don't worry about because in some days/weeks we all will know this from Kodak's anouncement. (pricing range to new Ektachrome).
Looking again to some of your arguments against Kodachrome (from pricing) the same arguments will speak against Ektachrome..
Well - I agree with some of you because I don't want to have Kodachrome back if I have to pay $35,- to a single roll.
$ 60,- is also no possibility (as alternate price. )......
But - therefore I stated it - $ 8,95 including developement is real unrealistic
today (to Kodachrome) altough this would be a pricing I am familiar with - (from the 80th)....
And today? Is the pricing of our beloved
Ektachrome, we are familiar, with from last rolls we bought - realistic today?

I just remember Ebay auctions to last Ektachrome (amateuric version) in expired condition $ 85,- (5x135-36)....?

And I am quite sure there might be some people who remember this also -sitting now in Rochester (don't worry PE isn't meant) and are in charge of marketing departement.
$17,- - $21,50...
how is that supposed to work ??????

with regards

 

[Photo Engineer]

Whats the best stop bath for Kodachrome threads?

<sigh> ---- a moderator!

 

[falotico]

As I said before.... At a price, I will send an autographed copy of the K14 patent to anyone. This patent is an original given by the patent office to the inventor(s). Quite a deal.

Name your price Ron. And by the way, do you have a patent for powdered wigs, or for quill pens?

 

[trendland]

<sigh> ---- a moderator!

...indeed !

with regards

 

[SuzanneR]

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